I have signed on to so many sites about RV and RV travel that I am not sure if I have been here before. While I am having a memorable time traveling, the RV is a bit on the high-maintenance side. I started out in Phoenix, Arizona with plans to drive up to Coeur D'Alene, Idaho to play a little guitar with an old friend. I encountered some awning fighting wind heading out of Las Vegas. The generator stopped working on the second day. Eh.
I made it to Idaho and spent a few days visiting and having a mobile mechanic put a new fuel pump on my generator (Onan Marquis 5500). That only ran for another half an hour. But see I was looking at this great nation of ours all the while. What an amazing gigantic place we live in huh? About a hundred and fifty miles later I was frightened off the road by a sloppy front axle. I spent a week in the Tri-CIties area while heading down to POrtland; I could not get anyone to even look at my ride for days. Finally, a most righteous fleet service shop called Fat Boys in Pasco, pulled it in found dry bearings on the passenger front-side and ordered the parts in which were installed the next day.
I was back on the road and the next day I drove through Portland and on to the Pacific coast. Without a generator, I was staying in RV parks with hookups dontchya know. The coast was fantastic and beautiful and scary for a first-timer like me. The Redwood Highway and The Coast Highway had some pretty tight and steep parts to go through, even so, I got to sneak a look at the amazing scenery around me.
I rolled on across through middle California through places like Fresno. Bakersfield and Needles. Did you know that there is a Needles, California on the I-40 and on the I-10 as well? There is a state 95 on either side of the Colorado River as well. Amazing. This was a shakedown trip that helped me get a clear idea of what this life is like so I am pleased to be back in Phoenix. As a rockhound, I expect to be back here for the new year and make this pig basecamp for a few local digs before the summer come back around with that danged old big red ball in the sky.
PS - new thing, it is like someone else has a hand on the ignition keys and just turns the thing off any old place. Not cool. I can gingerly put it up into neutral and start it back up for things like BRAKES!!!. Does anyone have any knowledge of this malady? I am driving a 1999 Thor Pinnacle on a Ford F93 truck body with a V-10 which I really like). Cheers, iamjeff
I made it to Idaho and spent a few days visiting and having a mobile mechanic put a new fuel pump on my generator (Onan Marquis 5500). That only ran for another half an hour. But see I was looking at this great nation of ours all the while. What an amazing gigantic place we live in huh? About a hundred and fifty miles later I was frightened off the road by a sloppy front axle. I spent a week in the Tri-CIties area while heading down to POrtland; I could not get anyone to even look at my ride for days. Finally, a most righteous fleet service shop called Fat Boys in Pasco, pulled it in found dry bearings on the passenger front-side and ordered the parts in which were installed the next day.
I was back on the road and the next day I drove through Portland and on to the Pacific coast. Without a generator, I was staying in RV parks with hookups dontchya know. The coast was fantastic and beautiful and scary for a first-timer like me. The Redwood Highway and The Coast Highway had some pretty tight and steep parts to go through, even so, I got to sneak a look at the amazing scenery around me.
I rolled on across through middle California through places like Fresno. Bakersfield and Needles. Did you know that there is a Needles, California on the I-40 and on the I-10 as well? There is a state 95 on either side of the Colorado River as well. Amazing. This was a shakedown trip that helped me get a clear idea of what this life is like so I am pleased to be back in Phoenix. As a rockhound, I expect to be back here for the new year and make this pig basecamp for a few local digs before the summer come back around with that danged old big red ball in the sky.
PS - new thing, it is like someone else has a hand on the ignition keys and just turns the thing off any old place. Not cool. I can gingerly put it up into neutral and start it back up for things like BRAKES!!!. Does anyone have any knowledge of this malady? I am driving a 1999 Thor Pinnacle on a Ford F93 truck body with a V-10 which I really like). Cheers, iamjeff
